scholarly journals The irace package: Iterated racing for automatic algorithm configuration

2016 ◽  
Vol 3 ◽  
pp. 43-58 ◽  
Author(s):  
Manuel López-Ibáñez ◽  
Jérémie Dubois-Lacoste ◽  
Leslie Pérez Cáceres ◽  
Mauro Birattari ◽  
Thomas Stützle
Keyword(s):  
Automatic Algorithm Configuration ◽  
Algorithm Configuration ◽  
Automatic Algorithm

scholarly journals MO-ParamILS: A Multi-objective Automatic Algorithm Configuration Framework

2016 ◽  
pp. 32-47 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aymeric Blot ◽  
Holger H. Hoos ◽  
Laetitia Jourdan ◽  
Marie-Éléonore Kessaci-Marmion ◽  
Heike Trautmann
Keyword(s):  
Multi Objective ◽  
Automatic Algorithm Configuration ◽  
Algorithm Configuration ◽  
Automatic Algorithm

scholarly journals ParamILS: An Automatic Algorithm Configuration Framework

2009 ◽  
Vol 36 ◽  
pp. 267-306 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. Hutter ◽  
H. H. Hoos ◽  
K. Leyton-Brown ◽  
T. Stuetzle
Keyword(s):  
Mixed Integer ◽  
Considerable Effort ◽  
Performance Improvements ◽  
Automatic Algorithm Configuration ◽  
Automated Algorithm ◽  
Algorithm Configuration ◽  
Consistent Performance ◽  
Problem Instances ◽  
Automatic Algorithm ◽  
Configuration Problem

The identification of performance-optimizing parameter settings is an important part of the development and application of algorithms. We describe an automatic framework for this algorithm configuration problem. More formally, we provide methods for optimizing a target algorithm’s performance on a given class of problem instances by varying a set of ordinal and/or categorical parameters. We review a family of local-search-based algorithm configuration procedures and present novel techniques for accelerating them by adaptively limiting the time spent for evaluating individual configurations. We describe the results of a comprehensive experimental evaluation of our methods, based on the configuration of prominent complete and incomplete algorithms for SAT. We also present what is, to our knowledge, the first published work on automatically configuring the CPLEX mixed integer programming solver. All the algorithms we considered had default parameter settings that were manually identified with considerable effort. Nevertheless, using our automated algorithm configuration procedures, we achieved substantial and consistent performance improvements.

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